Vanderbilt is Kentucky’s next opponent in the sport of men’s basketball and John Calipari’s Wildcats are catching Bryce Drew’s Commodores at a good time.

Vanderbilt was in Athens last night to take on the Georgia Bulldogs, which did not go well. At all. Georgia won that game by 19 points — the same Georgia team that lost by 46 at Tennessee last weekend.

After the game, Coach Drew was asked about playing Kentucky on Saturday and he said they won’t spend any time looking at Kentucky today; they will instead look back at all the things that went wrong against the Bulldogs.

The problem there is Vandy’s seeds and harvests don’t have a lot of time before the Commodores make the trip to Lexington. Kentucky already has a one-day advantage by playing on Tuesday, plus the benefit of playing at home. So it’s the perfect opportunity for the Cats to get a dominant win with 40 minutes of good basketball, something we haven’t seen through the first two games of SEC play.

Vanderbilt is currently winless in the conference, having lost its first game to Ole Miss by 10 points at home. It’s just not the same team after the injury to star point guard Darius Garland, who is out for the entire season after leading the team in scoring through five games.

I absolutely agree with both of you. It may be closer than the Texas A&M game was. Kentucky was lucky to win that game. Also UK would have lost by double digits easily at Alabama if they would not have pressed in the last minute. I still am mystified on why this team does not press the entire game. The athletes they have could make it tough on the other team. But, we would rather play to the other teams tempo and hopefully beat them at their own game which also astonishes me. We should press and make teams play to our tempo. I am sure this will not happen unless we are behind.

It isn’t just this team Righteous1… last years team played the other team’s tempo as well. We should have dirt rolled Kansas State, but in the week leading up to the game, all Cal would talk about was how we were gonna have to “grind it out”. Sure enough, we let them dictate the tempo and they beat us without their best player even playing. Smh

Vandy is absolute garbage. The Cats need to come out of the gate with some intensity, looking to blow these guys out. This game should really be a slaughter in Rupp Arena. It should be over early. Come on CATS, impose your will on a lesser opponent for a change!

Who is sick of one and done? I’m ready for a team that is worried about the final score, not its draft status. Most of the SEC has this type of players. I hate Tennessee but love the competitiveness of that team. A team done right by maturing and getting better. Wish those days would return at UK.

UT has a good team this year. Maybe they will equal their best finish EVER and make the Elite Eight for what, the 3rd time in history? But they will probably flame out second round. And next year when Williams and Scofield are gone they will be lucky to be top 25. Is that what you want? Then go buy some puke orange and root for them.